Because of summer cookouts which often include hot dogs, the National Hot Dog and Sausage Council established National Hot Dog Day in 1991 to coincide with a hot dog lunch on Capitol Hill. The observa ...
Read ArticleThe deeply empathetic works of German Expressionist Käthe Kollwitz reflect not only the sensibilities of a highly sophisticated printmaking artist, but also a compassionate and caring mother deep ...
Read ArticleLarry Walker was born in Georgia but raised from one year of age in Harlem, New York, in the waning days of the Harlem Renaissance. A consummate abstractionist, he also devoted his life to art edu ...
Read ArticleA conservative dating of the so-called Golden Age of posters is the 1890s up to World War I (1914–1918). However, poster art continued to develop and flourish through the 1920s into World War II ...
Read ArticleThe tradition of African American women sculptors goes all the way back to the 1800s with Edmonia Lewis (1844–1907), continues through the Harlem Renaissance in the person of Augusta Savage (189 ...
Read ArticleNational Skilled Trades Day was established in 2019 by the National Day Calendar and City Machine Technologies, Inc. Skilled workers are employed in a variety of fields and positions that can be perso ...
Read ArticleOnce again we honor National African American History Month. I don’t think it can be argued that, despite the fact that we recognize the contemporary accomplishments of African American artists, ...
Read ArticleI close out my Month of New Acquisitions with a pioneer American modernist. Pioneer because she was exploring avant-garde art at a time in America that it was not popular. ...
Read ArticleAlthough largely passed over by art historians until the 1970s, women artists have played a significant role in the art world since ancient times. Ask your students to create a work of art that expres ...
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